Brewologist: Shiner offers something special for spring

5:56 AM,
Feb. 20, 2013

Written by

Steve Goble
CentralOhio.com

Ballplayers are in camps, getting set for Opening Day. The winter-browned grass is looking a bit more green. The groundhogs have spoken.

And spring beers are on the shelves.

Spoetzl Brewery produces a nice seasonal called FM 966, a name that sounds like it ought to be an homage to a great country radio station, but instead refers to a road in Texas that farmers use to get their produce to markets. FM 966 is a farmhouse ale, also known as a saison. ...